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Looks at major factors inhibiting production. Lack of foreign exchange; foreign control of distribution; national markets too small to support a domestic film industry on commercial lines; and the failure of African governments to return money taken from cinema taxation into local film production. (SJO)

Major factors inhibiting the production of feature films in black Africa have been identified as: lack of foreign exchange; foreign control of distribution; national markets too small to support a domestic film industry on commercial lines among other things. The paper looks at these factors in operation in Tanzania, the scene in colonial times of several pioneering experiments in film production for African audiences. (DÜI-Sen)

CINEMA IN THE LABYRINTH OF FREEDOM: POLISH FEATURE FILM AFTER 1989 "Freedom does not exist. We should aim towards it but the hope that we will be free is ridiculous."Krzysztof Kieślowski1 This essay is the continuation of my previous deliberations on the evolution of the Polish feature film during socialist realism, which summarized its output and pondered its future after the victory of the Solidarity movement. In the paper "Cinema Under Political Pressure…" (1993), I wrote inter alia: "Those serving the Tenth Muse did not notice that martial law was over; they failed to record on film the takeover of the government by the political opposition in Poland. […] In the new political situation, the society has been trying to create a true democratic order; most of the filmmakers' strategies appeared to be useless. Incipit vita nova! Will the filmmakers know how to use the.